Senior Policy Officer (Scotland)
- Full time
- £34,362 – £36,252
- : Homebased in Scotland (with occasional travel required)
- Closing 14th April 2024
- Advertised from 2nd April 2024
Role
At Independent Age, we believe that no older person should face financial hardship. That’s why, by 2027, our goal is to have improved the lives of one million older people. Our impact across policy, campaigning, information and advice, grant-making and partnerships improves lives by increasing the financial well-being of older people in financial hardship, enabling greater choice and independence in wider areas of life. We want to find talented individuals from diverse backgrounds to join us on this journey.
Responsibilities and Person Specification:
This role will form an integral part of our three person Policy and Public Affairs team based in Scotland, working as part of a UK-wide Policy and Influencing team. The role will drive forward our policy projects to reduce poverty in later life, conducting expert research and policy analysis and turning this into persuasive evidence to catch the attention of decision makers and persuaders. The postholder will create opportunities to amplify the voices of older people in poverty and work to secure support for our policy recommendations in Holyrood.
You will have strong research skills with experience of turning quantitative and qualitative data into high quality, persuasive policy outputs. You will have experience developing credible, evidence-based policy solutions, informed by the perspectives and insights of people with lived experience.
You will be a skilled verbal and written communicator with the ability to engage different audiences. You will build strategic relationships with a variety of stakeholders to advance the solutions needed to address poverty in later life, using your knowledge of the political landscape in Scotland and passion for our cause.
For full details on the role and requirements, please review the job description and person specification below. If your experience doesn’t align perfectly with all of the criteria in the person specification but you do meet most of them and are excited about the role, we encourage you to apply anyway.
This is a full-time role, 35 hours per week, which you can choose to work over five days or a 9-day fortnight.
What it’s like to work at Independent Age:
We celebrate diversity at Independent Age and champion the differences that make each of us unique. We actively support and encourage people from a variety of backgrounds, experiences and skill sets to join us and help shape what we do. We aim to attract and retain a wide range of talent and create an environment where everyone can feel safe, protected, welcome and included.
We offer great benefits including 28 days annual leave plus public holidays, a generous pension scheme with life assurance, and fantastic learning and development opportunities. We also offer a number of enhanced leave provisions and benefits.
We know that a good work life balance helps us perform at our best and supports wellbeing. Flexible working hours and hybrid working is standard for all (those contracted to work in the office usually attend 1 day per week). But if you need a different form of flexibility, we are always happy to talk flexible working.
You can find out more about what it’s like to work at Independent Age by visiting our website.
Application notes
To apply, please visit our website to submit a CV and a Supporting Statement, detailing how your skills and experience meet the criteria within the Job Description and Person Specification. (please do not hesitate to contact us if you have specific requirements and need support to apply in an alternative format).
To support our commitment to equity, diversity and inclusion our hiring managers use anonymous shortlisting. Therefore, please do not include your name, photo, or information to indicate your gender or age in your CV and supporting statement. Please do not omit dates of employment. Please ensure the title of any uploads does not contain your name.
Independent Age is committed to safeguarding and follows Safer Recruitment practices to ensure we are safeguarding those we work with. We therefore ask that you supply your full work history with explanations for any gaps in the application documents you submit and, if offered the post, we will require two employment references including your current or most recent employer. A Basic Disclosure Scotland Certificate will be required for this role.
Closing Date: Sunday 14 April
Interview Dates: Wednesday 24th April & Thursday 25th April
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Friendship Coordinator
- Full time
- £26,718
- Hybrid: Scotland based: Blend of office (Edinburgh-based) and home working
- Closing 7th August 2024
Age Scotland is the national charity for older people. We work to improve the lives of everyone over the age of 50 so that they can love later life.
Sadly, thousands of older people in Scotland feel lonely and isolated and we want you to help change that!
With responsibility for the day-to-day co-ordination of our friendship services, you will help create a culture that promotes inclusion and diversity, flexibility, productivity, creativity, innovation and growth.
People-centred, you will work closely with the friendship manager and head of information, advice and friendship services to implement the friendship strategy to attract and retain talent and create an environment where staff and volunteers feel valued and supported to do their very best.
Living our values, you will approach the role with integrity, while involving, inspiring and empowering our teams, so together we can create better outcomes for older people in Scotland.
The post will be Scotland-based, a blend of office-based (Edinburgh-based) and home working. In return for your hard work, enthusiasm and commitment to our values you’ll receive a generous benefits package:
• Generous holiday allowance of 37 days (FTE) plus 2 fixed public holidays
• A range of learning and development opportunities
• Company sick pay
• Healthcare benefit through Westfield Health
• Discounted gym membership
• Cashback scheme from major retailers
• Contributory pension scheme with employer contributions of 9%
• A comprehensive package of support though our Employee Assistance Programme
• Group life cover up to three times your annual salary
• Cycle to work scheme
• Paid carers leave and dependants' support
• The option to buy more holidays or sell them
• Enhanced maternity and paternity policies.
Top job! Head of Dementia
- Part time
- £45,430 pro-rata
- Hybrid: Scotland based: Blend of office (Edinburgh-based) and home working
- Closing 9th August 2024
Age Scotland is the national charity for older people. We work to improve the lives of everyone over the age of 50 so that they can love later life.
Our people are central to our success in delivering services for older people in Scotland. We pride ourselves on having a positive working environment and culture.
As the Head of Dementia, you will provide strategic leadership for Age Scotland’s dementia work, including (but not limited to):
• About Dementia Human Rights and community engagement work
• Dementia Friendly Communities including Network and Grants work
• Dementia training Team
Living our values, you will approach the role with integrity, while involving, inspiring, and empowering our teams, so that together we can create better outcomes for older people in Scotland.
The post will be Scotland-based, a blend of office (Edinburgh-based) and home working. In return for your hard work, enthusiasm and commitment to our values you’ll receive a generous benefits package:
• Generous holiday allowance of 39 days (FTE)
• A range of learning and development opportunities
• Company sick pay
• Healthcare benefit through Westfield Health
• Discounted gym membership
• Cashback scheme from major retailers
• Contributory pension scheme with employer contributions of 9%
• A comprehensive package of support though our Employee Assistance Programme
• Group life cover up to three times your annual salary
• Cycle to work scheme
• Paid carers leave and dependents’ support
• The option to buy more holidays or sell them
• Enhanced maternity and paternity policies.
Community & Events Fundraiser
- Part time
- £27,671 – £28,910 pro-rata
- Hybrid: Community & Events Fundraiser Scotland based: Blend of office (Edinburgh-based) and home working
- Closing 11th August 2024
Age Scotland is the national charity for older people. We work to improve the lives of everyone over the age of 50 so that they can love later life.
We support and enable hundreds of communities and older people’s groups across Scotland. We provide information, friendship and advice through our free helpline and publications. We tackle loneliness and isolation with our Friendship Line and much more.
We work in Scotland with older people’s groups who provide vital activities and services for older people in their local community. We campaign on the issues that older people tell us are important to them.
Our mission is to inspire, involve and empower older people in Scotland, and influence others so that people can enjoy better later lives. To help us achieve that, our community and event fundraising activity aims to successfully increase donations and raise our profile and impact.
As a Community and Events Fundraiser you will work alongside the Corporate Trusts & Community Events Fundraising Manager to generate and maximise income from community and event fundraising activities, with a focus on challenge/sponsored events, bespoke Age Scotland events, private and street collections, static collection boxes, fundraising volunteers and local businesses.
Living our values you will work with colleagues across the charity and will collaborate with relevant Age UK colleagues on joint fundraising campaigns when required.
The post will be a blend of office and home working, requiring occasional travel across Scotland.
In return for your hard work, enthusiasm and commitment to our values you’ll receive a generous benefits package:
• Generous holiday allowance of 39 days (FTE) per year
• A range of learning and development opportunities
• Company sick pay
• Healthcare benefit through Westfield Health
• Discounted gym membership
• Cashback scheme from major retailers
• Contributory pension scheme with employer contributions of 9%
• A comprehensive package of support though our Employee Assistance Programme
• Group life cover up to three times your annual salary
• Cycle to work scheme
• Paid carers leave and dependants support
• The option to buy more holidays or sell them
• Enhanced maternity and paternity policies.
Grants Officer
- Full time
- £26,633 – £28,980
- Hybrid: Scotland based: Hybrid blend of office-based (Edinburgh) and home working
- Closing 2nd August 2024
Age Scotland is the national charity for older people. We work to improve the lives of everyone over the age of 50 so that they can love later life.
We support and enable hundreds of communities and older people’s groups across Scotland. We provide information, friendship and advice through our free helpline and publications. We tackle loneliness and isolation with our Friendship Line and much more.
We work in Scotland with older people’s groups who provide vital activities and services for older people in their local community. We campaign on the issues that older people tell us are important to them.
As Grants Officer for About Dementia, you will support the Grants and Learning Manager and fellow Grants Officer in running a community grants programme to help people living with dementia and unpaid carers across Scotland. This grants programme places the voices of lived experience of dementia at the forefront through our lived experience panel members, and this should be reflected through all your work. The duties of the role include:
•Working with the Grants and Learning Manager colleagues to oversee the administration and distribution of a community grants programme
•Supporting community groups to apply to the programme
•Enabling lived experience panel members to have their voices and experiences heard throughout the grant-making process.
•Working with the Communications team to ensure as wide a reach as possible around Scotland.
•Represent About Dementia and promote our work at conferences, events, and meetings.
•Support evidence-gathering to measure impact and capture learning
•Assisting in monitoring and evaluating grant recipients.
•Any other ad hoc duties as required.
This role will be a hybrid blend of office-based (Edinburgh) and home working.
Living our values, you will approach the role with integrity, while involving, inspiring and empowering our teams, so that together we can create better outcomes for older people in Scotland.
In return for your hard work, enthusiasm and commitment to our values you’ll receive a generous benefits package:
•Generous holiday allowance of 37 days (FTE) plus 2 fixed public holidays
•Flexible working opportunities from day one
•A range of learning and development opportunities
•Company sick pay
•Healthcare benefit through Westfield Health
•Discounted gym membership
•Cashback scheme from major retailers
•Contributory pension scheme with employer contributions of 9%
•A comprehensive package of support though our Employee Assistance Programme
•Group life cover up to three times your annual salary
•Cycle to work scheme
•Carers support
•The option to buy more holidays or sell them
•Enhanced maternity and paternity policies.
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